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Middle school creative writing literature circles for Microsoft Word
The Hero's Journey Graphic Organizer Guide
2 sheets list the steps of the hero's journey in a graphic organizer and provide a blank template for students to fill in for example stories that follow the hero's journey. This can be used as a planning tool for developing their own hero's journey stories or to analyze how other stories fit the hero's journey.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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Graphic organiser for writing monologues
This simple graphic organiser helps the students to start thinking of ideas which will help them to develop their monologues.
In History, monologues can be used to explore the impact of a particular event on a certain individual.In studying literature, this can help students to explore a character's personality in depth.
The graphic organiser is just a starting point for students to organise their ideas.After writing their monologues, the students can perform them in class.
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Grades:
5th - 8th
65 Book Report Ideas
Included is a list of 65 different book report ideas I have compiled from several different sources. The choices include ideas which should draw the interest of different types of learners. I require my students to turn in one book report per month by the last day of the month. They must choose one of these ideas and can not repeat an idea over the course of the year. I also posted this list to my website for parents to access.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Fever 1793 Book Trailer Project
This mini project will have the students reflecting on the novel Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. In groups, they will create a Book Trailer to advertise the novel and provide highlights of the book. This is a creative writing/fine arts (drama) cooperative learning project and should take about 4 days to complete. Included in this project are directions, worksheets,rubrics, and a mini powerpoint presentation with project directions. You are able to alter the presentation to suit your needs.
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Using Genre to develop a Story Structure.
This lesson allows students to think about generic conventions and how they might use them in developing individual stories. It shows how working within a genre can give them the scaffolding to explore individual ideas. It uses reading, discussion, guided story topics and reflection.
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Work on Structure at the Macro and Micro Levels
25 PLUS Writing Prompts for Any Novel
25+ Writing Prompts for Any Novel!
The writing prompt choices contained in this document not only allow students to use their high-order thinking skills to analyze the literature they read, the choices also help students have FUN while learning!
The writing prompts can be used for various purposes: journal entries, writing exercises (such as “set” beginners, free-writing activities, bell-ringer entires, etc.), reviews for previous reading assignments (including instructions for illustration
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
TPT: Fantasy Unit(Learning Targets, lecture notes, quiz, and 2 writing projects)
Unit includes:Writer's workshop project: Personal dragons as metaphor Writer's workshop project: Narrative fantasy planning sheetFantasy and Characterization notesQuiz for "The Smallest Dragon boy"Unit learning targets printable for studentsAll documents are Goggle Classroom/print ready. This is a complete Fantasy Genre Unit for Language arts. I used this with the Holt Elements of Literature 7th Grade text, but this could be adapted for other texts, ages, or stories. I supplement things that are
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 10th
Bud, Not Buddy: A Literature Study Unit (editable)
This is a 126-page Common Core-aligned literature study unit for use with the 2000 Newberry award-winning novel, Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. Set at the height of the Great Depression, the novel tells the story of ten year-old Bud Caldwell’s flight from a violent foster home and journey across the state of Michigan in search of a jazz musician he believes is his father. Along the way, he crosses paths with Dust Bowl migrants, hobos and union activists—who, like Bud, find creative w
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Never Bored with Our Own Board Games--End of Year Project / Literature Circles
For an end of the year project in my English 10 course and my AP Literature courses, students select a novel for Literature Circles and create a board game based on that novel. This packet includes a grading sheet.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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On The Come Up -- Journal Prompts (full novel)
This download includes 29 original, text-based journal prompts for Angie Thomas' novel, On The Come Up. Each prompt includes a quote from the assigned reading (I currently have it broken down into 21 days of assigned reading, but you can modify that if you wish) and asks students relevant questions regarding their own life experiences.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Lewis Carroll -- Jabberwocky -- Nonsense words, Sound Devices, Biography
Jabberwocky is a poem that many children love due to the sing song cadence of it. However, when it comes down to understanding what is being said, they are at a loss. This unit introduces Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky in three contexts. First as a standalone poem in it's entirety. Next, in the context of Stanza of Anglo Saxon Poetry in which Carroll defines the nonsense words. And lastly as Humpty Dumpty defines it in Through the Looking Glass. The goal here is to show introduce students to an aut
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 9th
Narratives: 5 senses remediation activity
One of the standards for writing narratives is using descriptive vocabulary and using the 5 senses to create imagery. This handout organizes 5 centers that I did in my classroom to cover the sensory standard for narratives. My students absolutely loved it! You can select you objects for each center based on what the students are going to write about for their narratives. For example, my students wrote narratives that were set during the fall time, so the stations have fall candle waxes for smell
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Grades:
4th - 9th
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) study guides and exam
Here is a fully editable and in-depth 75-question multiple choice test with creative writing prompt, and three study guides on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective whodunit. The questions focus on plot details, characters, themes, literary devices, and detective story genre techniques. The study guides also make connection to Edgar Allan Poe's detective Dupin and theatrical versions of the novel. A strong culminating exam after careful study of Conan's literary gem.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Short Story for Close Reading, Syntax, Grammar
This story allows for close reading, as well as, analyzing the purpose, grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure, etc.
Parallel sentence structure, dashes, hyphens, vocabulary, and italics are the grammar skills that are practiced through the reading of this story.
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6th - 10th
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150 Amazing & Weird But True Facts - Daily Facts for Classrooms or Lunchboxes!
Let's face it... kids LOVE to learn about interesting facts and tidbits. Why not post these daily for them to read! You can write a new one of the board each day, place them around the classroom, or cut facts apart to place them in a daily lunchbox. Students would also enjoy having them in a literacy station!
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Maniac Magee Integrated Novel Study
Incredible resource integrating reading, writing and social studies. Using authentic literature students will analyze the topics of racism and tolerance while learning about tall tales and using primary sources. Comes with vocabulary activities which include CLOZE sentences, definition cards, matching and analogies. Literature and comprehension skills are outlined by chapters to include comprehension questions and a knowledge application section thereby offering DOK levels 1-4. This is a must ha
Grades:
5th - 6th
"9" Fictional Story
This Lesson is about the story "9" a fictional, computer generated story. This story is a wonderful story for students of all ages; it contains a beautiful moral story and helps boost the passion for life in ANY age. I highly suggest using the movie with this plan. I have also added my lesson plan with the standards. It has a full story summary, questions, essay questions, plot structure questions, and multiple choice. Answer Key included!
Grades:
5th - 12th
"9" Fictional Story
This Lesson is about the story "9" a fictional, computer generated story. This story is a wonderful story for students of all ages; it contains a beautiful moral story and helps boost the passion for life in ANY age. I highly suggest using the movie with this plan. I have also added my lesson plan with the standards. It has a full story summary, questions, essay questions, plot structure questions, and multiple choice. Answer Key included!
Grades:
5th - 12th
The Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Workbook
This download includes everything you need to use The Hatchet by Gary Paulsen in your classroom. It includes:
Before Reading focus questions
During reading comprehension questions for each chapter with answer key!
During reading group discussion questions
During reading journal writing activities to engage students in their reading and put themselves into the shoes of the main character
During reading vocabulary study
After reading thoughts and wrap up discussion questions
This classic
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Journal Prompts for Novels and Short Stories
Here is a list of 104 Language Arts journal prompts to use after reading a novel or short story. There is a wide range of prompts ranging from "What if the setting were changed to the year 2100 or 1900?" to "Create a haiku poem about the main character." The prompts include critical thinking, literary elements, poetry, art, sentence frames, sequencing, creativity, and personal thoughts and reflections among others. They are meant for final projects, assessments, or just quick-writes.
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3rd - 8th
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Novel Study for It's All Greek to Me by Jon Scieszka
Novel study I designed to go with Jon Scieszka's book It's All Greek To Me, for grade 4, 5 or 6. Includes vocabulary, prediction, creative thinking, comprehension questions, descriptive writing, comparing characters, and more! Designed to be printed front and back, 8 1/2 X 11, already in booklet format to be folded in the middle.
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4th - 6th
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Esperanza Rising - Close reading questions
Close reading questions for the novel, Esperanza RisingAlso included: open ended journal entry after close reading questions Suggested use: You may have students tape questions in their notebooks and then respond. Use this source as a class read aloud, guided reading, book club, or homework aide.
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3rd - 6th, Staff
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The Phantom Tollbooth Guided Reading Plan and Novel Study
The Phantom Tollbooth can be accessed for free as a PDF download on google. Point of View, Narrative Voice: The fictional narrative is written by Norton Juster and is accompanied by whimsical illustrations by Jules Feiffer. Originally published in 1961 the story is told by an external narrator as it follows the trials and tribulations of the protagonist Milo. Tone: The tone of this book is a light one, there are appropriate and child friendly themes for children of all ages throughout the story.
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Cereal Box Book Report Rubric
This is a rubric for a cereal box book report.
There are book cover guidelines, a summary part for the beginning, middle, and end of the story, characters, setting, symbols, book talk, and an overall grade.
This was made for a 3rd grade class, where symbols were given as grades. The key can be changed to meet the needs of your class.
Grades:
PreK - 8th
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